The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management (Public Safety) is located in the Center for Public Safety and General Services and is operational 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, year round. The Communications Center is staffed by a trained public safety professional at all times and can be reached by calling (607) 274-3333 or extension 3333 from an on campus phone.

Public Safety is a full service public safety provider with responsibility for campus safety, campus crime awareness and campus crime prevention and education. Public Safety members are a well trained team inclusive of uniformed campus police officers and state-certified security officers. In addition to Patrol and Security operations (to include Investigations), Public Safety is comprised of Parking Services, Environmental Health & Safety, and Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol (SASP). Public Safety areas of responsibility include:

Emergency response

Fire safety

Crime prevention programming

Special event staffing

Providing safety escorts

Repository for lost and found

Administering vehicle assistance, and

Managing vehicular and traffic control on campus.

In compliance with federal requirements mandated by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Statistics Act [20 USC 1092(f)], Public Safety is responsible for preparing, publishing and distributing an Annual Security & Fire Safety Report by October 1 of each year, for the purpose of disclosing and disseminating certain information regarding campus crime statistics, security policies and campus law enforcement. Information mandated by this Act include statements about:

Campus law enforcement policies

Campus security education and prevention programs

Alcohol and drug policies

Sexual assault education and prevention programs

Procedures for reporting sexual assaults, and

Procedures for handling reports of sexual assault.

You can view the publication electronically, or you may request a hard copy via phone or walk-in to Public Safety. The crime statistics for Ithaca College (also contained in the annual security report) are submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) through a web-based data collection system and can be viewed at http://www.ope.ed.gov/security.